NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with U.S. historian Jill Lepore about her new book, "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution." The writer Jill Lepore wrote a history of the United States called ...

The U.S. is marking a milestone — 250 years since the Declaration of Independence. That founding document — along with the ...

Race did not spread because it was scientifically persuasive. It spread because it served very human interests.” ...

Ahead of the clocks springing forward this weekend, you may be wondering why exactly the clocks are moved forward and backward.